One of the secondary markets that springs up whenever the Yankees are either in a period of prosperity or on the periphery of one is this: The Unsatisfiable Yankees Fan. They are the ones lately who have looked at the 100 games the Yankees won in the regular season and the two others they added...

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This is a gamble that both sides needed to take. It’ll either succeed wildly or fail horribly. Late in the summer of 2016, Joel Embiid was fuming. According to ESPN’s Kevin Arnovitz, Embiid was stomping around the Sixers’ old practice facility, at one point chucking a basketball across the hardwood. He had a workout scheduled with a marquee college big man prospect, but it got cancelled at the last minute. Instead, he had to face off against a 37-year old Elton Brand who was on the last legs of...

When we see icons overcoming unbeatable odds, with the entire universe hanging in the balance, we can more easily place ourselves in the same position. If a rich boy in a bat-suit can punch his evil doppelgänger in the face, I can tell my senator to stop taking the NRA’s blood money.